Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for July 13, 2017

All right, what gives? This is starting to sound like one of those sanctimonious, overbearing sjw comics.

That has been one of the things that Science Fiction Writers and Some Game Intro Videos (Beyound Earth, Alpha Centauri, etc.) have been saying for years. It just doesn’t get through to some though. How the Chosen get selected and why that particular criteria were used is quite often the story.

Soylent Green will be served inflight.

Who would want to leave all this behind?

Every country with available contraception is experiencing a negative population growth.

Nonetheless, per my buddy Wiki,

“The world population was estimated to have reached 7.5 billion in April, 2017. The United Nations estimates it will further increase to 11.2 billion in the year 2100.”

Planet of the Apes reference next strip?

Worse than that, there’s no place to go, either.

Arlo, I think you mean “Not everybody is going.”

“Everybody’s not going” is an ungrammatical way of saying “Nobody’s going.”

And, Arlo, I know you are just teasing Janice, but don’t go on too long. People have been warning that the End is Nigh for a couple of thousand years now, and pointing to a wide variety of natural and unnatural signs of their favoured scenario. It hasn’t happened yet.

I see parallels to the Book of Revelation.

If we could put all that knowledge and tech to work creating self sustaining cities we’d be onto something on our own planet. Read about a high rise where several floors were food that would take care of the needs of the entire building. Now that’s forward thinking.

BAH! Move on Jimmy.

I do not worry about it. Nature seems to have ways of compensating through attrition, war, pestilence, plague, natural disaster & famine. I seriously doubt that some continents like Africa would ever reach full population because they keep killing themselves off.

only the super wealthy will be able to afford to go

Nature bats last.

Well, the game plan is MAGA=kill off all competition and competitors.

I’m going, long before that. If I am here in 50 years it would be a record by today’s standards.

2 bummer’s in a row!!!!

You guys with the short attention spans…hang on. I’m sure it’s going to be worth the wait.

As for the number of transportees, how many people would move to another city they’ve never seen before? How many people never leave the city they were born in? And with the Flat Earthers growing in number and the educational system abetting them, things will have to be pretty bad to get very many colonists to a new world.

As long as we choose to NOT take our current “rats” of society such as politicians and their minion lobbyists along with bigots and psychopaths we might just do fine re-populating another world.

Wow, so . . .. I thought this was a comic? And, yes, I’m a sci-fi fan from ages ago (as in decades) and I do understand the overall theme here is, which (as someone else mentioned) is a pretty standard trope in sci-fi, especially in the 70s when the over-pollution-over-population-running-out-of-food thing was all the craze.

population will continue to increase here in the US as long as state aid increases per additional child without any limits. go ahead, have 4 or 5 kids, taxpayers will support you…… leave your job; that makes it an even sweeter deal

I don’t know if JJ has been reading “The Population Bomb” or channeling Frazz but this week’s strips are a downer.

Pbbbbbtt!

When the jester stops the act to speak seriously for a moment, foolish people head for the door. Wise people listen.

It would be nice if the strip writer could explain the present discourse into chaos.

I read comics for fun and escape . I’ve dropped comics for climbing on their collective stumps and slashing out at world problems . Those cartoonists should move to the OP-ED page . Give me a laugh , “then” I’ll read the trash . Please .

This strip, until this particular set used to be a nice escape from the nut-so world of today’s raging debates on climate change, over population and general environmental gloom and doom. I always looked forward to JJ’s deeply smart view on human nature. JJ made me laugh and I always felt better for the “read”. Now like the rest of those with a forum like JJ he has joined the fray and is espousing his world view instead of the delightful antics of Arlo and his cast of characters. Hope this subject ends Friday…

SEVEN billion and moving to 8. It will slow down when we reach 12 and famine.

In any migration mankind has done & there have been a lot, when has everyone wanted to go?This has been an odd week for Arlo and Janis… I though they were working towards a move to down by the water. I am!

The only immigration will be from the stricken countries to the ones still able to sustain its population. They will not take in many new mouths to feed a water.

Climate change? You have 7.5 billion souls who must all participate to change the climate. Earth is going to do what earth is going to do. All we can do is adjust and be sensible.

Arlo, you and Janis might as well go live with Gene and his family while you still can. Enjoy your family and be a friend to the earth. Feed people good food. Honor God.

1970s-era Apocalyptic Arlo is not a fun Arlo.

What so many here fail to take into account is natural consequences. Look at any ghetto. Over-crowding invites crime, vermin and pestilence. Remember the Black Plague, the influenza outbreaks, world wars? There are natural forces at work to affect an acceptable balance. Besides, earth is light years from overcrowding. The Netherlands is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. No one expects the Dutch to go belly-up.

Let’s get off this arc, PLEASE!?!?!?!?!? I like my comics to entertain, and this arc sure isn’t. If I want to be depressed, I can watch the news!

Even at the speed of light, which is impossible per Einstein, it would take two years to reach our NEAREST star which likely does not have a habitable planet. Hope they’re comfy in their seats because they are in for a LONG ride.